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A Theory of Military Dictatorships [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military dictatorships. The elite may build a strong military and make the concessions necessary for the military to behave as their perfect agent, or they may risk the military turning against them.
Daron Acemoğlu +2 more
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Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development [PDF]
American Political Science Review, 1993 Under anarchy, uncoordinated competitive theft by “roving bandits” destroys the incentive to invest and produce, leaving little for either the population or the bandits. Both can be better off if a bandit sets himself up as a dictator—a “stationary bandit” who monopolizes and rationalizes theft in the form of taxes.
M. Olson
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Fear dictatorship within the context of information society development
Studia Humanitatis, 2022 The author’s aim is to understand whether the reverse evolution of a spin dictatorship towards a fear dictatorship is possible within the context of contemporary information society.
Vlasova Olga Yurievna
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How Authoritarianism Transforms: A Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship
Government and Opposition, 2023 While digital technologies have induced profound global transformations, political scientists often lack the analytical tools to grasp their effects on politics.
Oliver Schlumberger +3 more
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Nicaragua: Doubling Down on Dictatorship
Journal of Democracy, 2022 :After Nicaragua's fraudulent 2016 elections, President Daniel Ortega and Vice-President and First Lady Rosario Murillo appeared firmly in control, buoyed by economic growth and elite alliances.
Kai M. Thaler, Eric Mosinger
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Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors
Journal of Development Economics, 2021 We look at Chile’s transition to democracy in 1990 to study the persistence of authoritarian politics at the local level. Using new data on the universe of mayors appointed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), and leveraging on the arbitrary ...
F. González, Pablo Muñoz, M. Prem
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Oil and the duration of dictatorships [PDF]
Public Choice, 2010 Theoretical models do not reach an unambiguous conclusion concerning the effects of natural resource endowment on the duration of dictatorial regimes. We assess empirically, for the first time, the relationship between oil endowment and the duration of autocratic leaders.
Crespo Cuaresma, J. +2 more
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Dictatorship versus manipulability [PDF]
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2019 The Gibbard–Satterthwaite (1973/75) theorem roughly states that we have to accept dictatorship or manipulability in case of at least three alternatives. A large strand of the literature estimates the degree of manipulability of social choice functions (e.g. Aleskerov and Kurbanov, 1999, Favardin et al., 2002, and Aleskerov et al., 2012),
Dezső Bednay +3 more
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Growth-friendly dictatorships [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015 This research argues that in highly unequal societies, a rent-seeking and self-maximizing dictator may be supported by a fraction of the population, despite the absence of special benefits to these societal groups. Importantly, it is the stakes of the dictator in the economy, in the form of capital ownership, that drive the support of individuals.
De Luca, Giacomo +2 more
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Famine in Spain During Franco's Dictatorship, 1939–52
, 2021 In the aftermath of civil war, Spain witnessed a period known as the ‘Years of Hunger’, which would extend throughout the postwar years (1939–52). The dictatorship would lay the blame on external factors, although the causes for the collapse of living ...
Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
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